The "World of Microbes on the Internet" workshop was presented for K-12
educators June 8-12 and June 23-25, 1998, for the Las Cruces, NM and Lubbock,
TX areas, respectively. The workshop presentations covered "The World
of Microbes" and the use of computer technology to bring this type of science
into the K-12 classroom.
The workshop included:
tutorials to provide participants with basic computer and Internet skills.
many discussion sessions allowing for coverage of the topics that were of
most interest to the participants.
hands on laboratory experiments to provide the participants with experience
in activities they could use to teach their own students.
the designing and creation of participant authored web pages presenting
information on microbes.